Word: partisans
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...Versailles Treaty without reservations, shows that he fails to understand the present attitude of the American people. Nine months ago a referendum would undoubtedly have showed a majority in favor of passing the Treaty intact. But the Republicans chose to use their majority in the Senate to play partisan politics with the document of Versailles until it has become an issue between a treaty with some reservations or no treaty. And the majority of Americans support the former choice...
...indicates, however, a strong tendency which political managers even at this stage of the game may not ignore. It is illustrated not only by the sincere though fantastic program of the "Committee of Forty-Eight," but by the probably less sincere and less fantastic Non-Partisan League, and by the palpably insincere and dangerous machinations of William Randolph Hearst. It is the tendency, somewhat justified, we must grant, to regard the "old-line" parties as having ceased to fulfill any salutary political functions, and to regard the formation of a new and powerful "third party" as the logical means...
...would hesitate to make such a sweeping condemnation. However, we do offer this criticism for whatever it is worth. There are always men and women entering the University with strong partisan views, occasioned by their family affiliations and their previous environment, their preparatory school life, their family affiliations and their home discussions. We wish to urge men coming to college with too strongly formed pre-possessions, prejudices, and preconceptions not to be hasty in wishing to foist their opinions on others...
...Governor Samuel Walker McCall is to speak in the New Lecture Hall on April 13 at 8 o'clock in support of Herbert Hoover for President. He will talk from the non-partisan view-point, giving his reasons for favoring Hoover. This will be the first time that Mr. McCall has formally spoken in favor of the former Food Administrator. The ex-governor is one of the foremost Republicans of Massachusetts, having served in several former national conventions and in Congress for a number of years...
...done makes it clear that he will place the interests of the public above the interests of party. He is not a politician, and that is one reason why the politicians will have none of him. It is also one reason why those of us who put national before partisan interests should speak...